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[@maesterjono]

Long live flesh and blood. Game is so good

[@MakoStud]

Finally, some flesh and blood content. You know you didn’t have to divorce yourself from the game mate 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@Rishino]

My man Roody was busy getting hosed by his Metazoo mistress

[@MakoStud]

@@JB-ok6ti thanks buddy.

[@happydimsum8221]

Fab is actually so fun

[@clarkjansen2048]

I hope you do more FAB content going forward. LSS treats you way better than any other game publisher but you barely do any fab videos

[@kapoioskanenas2337]

Another thing to notice is that from my experience, starting fab the past month, the playerbase of fab is more mature and tends to focus on specific heroes so they prefer to buy the cards they need/want instead of gambling.

[@phamdinhhoang1998]

I play brute. Gambling is in my blood

[@mizzogames]

FaB is my current favorite TCG: lore wise, art, flavor and gameplay are right on the spot to me.

[@ValariaxSword]

Same. It’s been such a great experience to be involved from the beginning. Plus the game is still young so plenty of time to jump in and pick up staples. Our collections will be crazy in 20 years.

[@huemungus5535]

To the next 5 years!!🎉

[@larvatar2387]

Singles outselling Boxes comes from one thing, Players. This market is driven not by collectors and heavy bag investors that want to 2x by the end of the year, it's driven by the overall meta and cards that sre either seeing play, or not seeing play. Collectors have incentive to collect through the Coil Foil Reprint Policy, and Marvels becoming more and more of a chase rarity in newer sets, but unlike a game like One Piece, we know print runs and the game is adequately stocked. You're not 10x-ing in this game unles you make a meta call on some random Magestic in a class that has seen 0 play, but is due up for support.

[@IneptCardCollector]

You may be right, but as a collector who's ripped cases and cases of several consecutive sets, it's not a great experience. Now I just buy singles instead of looking at my collection of freshly pulled Cold Foil commons.

[@brianmattei7134]

Which is how it should be.

[@brianmattei7134]

@@IneptCardCollector Good, you shouldn't be able to make money on investing in cardboard.

[@jonmmath]

Yeh we play fab haha it's fun

[@davidgamble4004]

FAB world champion purse is 2x pokemon. let that sink in.

[@MTGUnpacked]

Hilarious seeing the MetaZoo comparisons. The only thing FaB has in common is they started around the same time. FaB has a constantly growing and competitive playerbase, and they also cater to collectors with stuff like cold foils, promos, and Marvels. With over a dozen sets released, I'm pretty sure they're here to stay!

[@monkey39128]

Yeah if Force of Will can continue to survive and carve out a niche then I'm sure FAB can. Nothing like Metazoo from what I've seen.

[@NarutoUzumaki-mx1mo]

Totally agreed even though it’s not available in my country

[@williamkshaw]

Got bored and looked at MetaZoo card value and outside of promos and KS boxes, the highest card is arounds $50 and Nightfall doesn't have a card over $2

[@tbd3058]

Fab hasn’t been growing for a long time now. Stop spreading this false narrative. It’s old and stale

[@acex222]

@@monkey39128 Force of Will is still going?

[@brianmattei7134]

I love how Roody is implying this is some form of bizarre phenomena when it's literally how Magic operated until the Pandemic/Secret Lair era. Magic has a wide consumer base, but the vast majority of sealed prices were directly correlated to the cards within them being worth something because of tournament play.

[@jamiepb2957]

That's what 2 of our LGS's do. Crack 10 cases to sell singles.

[@MakoStud]

Pls don’t mention metazoo to Fab. Fab doesn’t have kindergarten art.

[@OggiOggiOggi]

Pokemon does have and is succesfull. Almost as if the comparison goes further than the art....

[@MakoStud]

@@OggiOggiOggi no one mentioned pokemon metazoo fan

[@MakoStud]

@@JB-ok6ti but I never mentioned Pokemon? Wtf are you on? Dumb drugs? Pokemon is high school art. I fck with it. Metazoo is my kids art they draw for me at kindergarten boy.

[@MakoStud]

@@JB-ok6ti what are you on about? I love Pokemon? lol. It doesn’t have kindergarten art. As you were

[@edchan9667]

Totally different games and totally different cultures of management running the company.

[@MrManiacmagee]

"you hate your job... You do just enough to not get fired" damn I feel attacked 😂

[@psxinpdx168]

while watching from my desk at work too 😂

[@KrepsyK]

Watch the movie Office Space

[@AdventureCoGaming]

Love the flesh and blood content. Still going strong, best OP system and a company that cares about its player base. I hope doubters at least give it a try

[@nicholashutzel9202]

I second this.

[@KavdaenMain]

Game is so much fun

[@gamma626]

The doubters are not players, they're investors who want to make money on the game by holding and selling boxes, which will never be profitable with any set moving forward. Anyone that actually plays FAB tends to really enjoy it and know it's sticking around because LSS is a fantastic studio always striving to improve the game and Organized Play.

[@davidq344]

Trying to pump and dump another card game Rudy?

[@CCRexKanin]

That's how I've been feeling about Grand Archive. Both GA and FAB are master class games rn

[@MrBodingles]

Love the fab videos. Get to watch one of my favorite youtubers without discussing the fire that is mtg

[@henryluu5447]

Hi

[@ShinPG]

Fab heavily caters to competitive players at the moment, so it makes sense. Everything is about getting just the cards you need to build your deck. I think their next step as a company has to be finishing their PvE format, because they can then hold on to the more casual players.

[@ethercept]

Haven't tried FAB yet, playing Sorcery: Contested Realm, Mythrel & Grand Archive but I bought a bunch of FAB to rip and learn!

[@very_grey]

Every micro FaB community I've met with has been great. Lots of people willing to sit down and teach and get cards to people who need them to play.

[@edchan9667]

Welcome to FaB!!

[@dustinandrews7409]

Fab has definitely proven to be a players game. Good on them for holding true.

[@mstrikerwildrift]

Not in the asian market

[@dustinandrews7409]

@mstrikerwildrift I believe it. I want to sell my 80000 card collection but they are almost worthless.

[@simonthekindcutthroat6324]

That hairline is really starting to suffer the hustler lifestyle.

[@Goat-tb9re]

FaB art is the best in tcg's

[@TempoLOOKING]

Sorcery

[@nwttp]

Looks pretty lame from what ive seen. Do they allow atractve women on their cards?

[@DanielKovacs]

Super Interesting. First time on this channel. New to FAB and this was super interesting. Thanks. Cheers Daniel

[@grvedr]

Great game ran by a great company. If you actually play TCGs, there's really no comparison. If yr trying to iNvESt, go with pokemon.

[@upStomp]

The "investment" aspect is just my excuse to buy and open more boxes 😉

[@monkey39128]

Pokémon will become oversaturated with investors eventually the way it's going. Probably not anytime soon but in 10-15 years I could see some serious slow downs.

[@OggiOggiOggi]

The whole idea of investing is to buy before the rest does. So saying go with pokemom when fab is a hidden gem in your opinion is beyond dumb

[@grvedr]

@@OggiOggiOggi i mean, there is opportunity in the FAB market, you just have to have detailed knowledge of the game/meta. and you're right, if FAB continues as is for another 5-10 years, it seems pretty reasonable to think that former players will become collectors yadda yadda. but if you don't care about any of that, and just want to iNvEsT, you can't go wrong with pokemon. reliable as anything else and can be simple to get into.

[@Vivinski7]

Great company that went out of their way to destroy the market and print mtg numbers because theyre so greedy. LSS makes hasbro look good.

[@fabrocny1618]

Part the Mistveil will make an impact in Japan when the world premiere is released in Tokyo may 17th to the 19th. They are gonna love it! Long live Flesh And Blood.

[@Auskaa]

I used to buy every prouct( uprising is last one) with a fear that prices go crazy, now on cardmarket i see that there is no issue and i can just buy product when i have money, no need to stress. I also wait for PVE mode.

[@monkey39128]

Still got my one box of Monarch and one box of Uprising. No idea if they'll ever do anything but they look great on the shelf.

[@FaBFoundry]

Love the FaB content and update! Game and Community is in a great place! It's why I was confident in opening one of the first FaB-Only Shops in the world here in Portland, Oregon!

[@shawndimension4147]

FAB is killing it! Love the fab content

[@panny145]

Fantastic video and analysis! I think FAB is doing so much right - bright future ahead

[@edchan9667]

I played Bright Lights and my partner and i also are a fan of this set. It just didnt quite have the competitive heroes that the player based were expecting.

[@Lb_Collects]

I mean, I'm in Europe and I collect FaB, purely for the art, love the cold foils, think they're sick. And the company behind them seem solid, nothing like Metazoo etc at all. I see a good future.

[@syjohnston6603]

Maybe I'm just unlucky, or maybe the other stores aren't calculating EV correctly, but I opened entire shipments from a distributor of around 140 boxes and wouldn't get the 1 expensive Marvel and would lose money, or you'd get like 3 cold foil legendarys out of the entire shipment. And the singles do not move well. Singles often wouldn't sell at all until the Monday after set release, presales is pretty much not a thing, and you sit there watching the fable drop to $50 or less. Plus, the commons and rares are generally 100% worthless. The EV appears to be there when you calculate it up to release, but the sales just don't happen reliably, then you watch as the EV crumbles cause the sales are super slow. I wouldn't recommend any store do mass box openings of FAB.

[@kennymorelandiii9406]

Completely agree. After watching this video I did some research and sure at quick glance seeing the cost of a box or case and some singles prices you're used to MtG, One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh and pokemon like I currently am and you initially think it's an untapped gold mine but straight up a tcg needs collectors if you want to profit from selling singles. It's only players in FaB which is cool but you're not going to sell nowhere near the number of singles you will think. If you don't get lucky and nab one of the top hero Marvel cards you're not 10xing or anything close to what Rudy is saying. Straight up if it was possible it was already done and over with as by thr time it comes to youtube its too late anyways

[@YNGDYE]

*cries in monarch*

[@PipFoweraker]

Our time will come

[@monkey39128]

I still believe! 🤣

[@TraphouseTCG]

Mon to 100😭😭

[@monkey39128]

@@TraphouseTCG 😂😂😂

[@KrepsyK]

My monarch unlimited is holding up my monitor...

[@Driver10011]

What’s fascinating is that Tales of Aria First Edition boxes are sitting at $40 on TCGPlayer. How does that happen when there are cards worth twice that in the set?

[@djsk244]

Because the pull rate is garbage. People forget that the EV on each box is abysmal, people rather just buy the chase cards lol

[@emiliofarouse7947]

I mean.. all of those heros hit living legends in CV format.. Just some blitz heros left. It's basically a gamble for New horizons or key cold foils

[@stigmurder99]

Aria will go back up quick when they bring the elements back

[@KrepsyK]

Shit I'm about to buy a couple. Loved that set

[@edchan9667]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Living Legend format gets cracking then ToA 1st will start going back up.

[@alexdoran527]

I skipped Bright Lights and Heavy Hitters but this new Mistveil set has my interest. Love the art. I still have my Dynasty Command & Conquer, that card alone is worth about £500, so basically paid for the case and change

[@dylan_sieren]

Loved. I joined at DtD and the game has been an absolute blast.

[@vinniegfood]

I was in japan in february and saw a lot of FAB cards and boxes

[@sulmenite6938]

Flesh and blood is a stellar game run by a decent company. I don’t care if some basement dwelling investor types can make money from it or not.

[@upStomp]

Superior gameplay, superior opening experience, superior artwork. Difficult for many to get into because adoption is so slow or non-existant in many areas while also not having a commercial game client or official PvE option.

[@cryptorcd9352]

Not having official client is the worst. Even if its just single player adventure. I convinced friend to learn mtg by playing mtg 2015 agains Ai. Wish i could do the same for FAB

[@nikolashug4619]

I love flesh and blood.

[@adamrenga1523]

RUDY WHAT IS YOUR NET WORTH -IRS employee

[@ElusiveNight99]

This might be a controversial talking point but I hope people hear me out. I genuinely think LSS needs to open up a smaller section of distribution to places like Walmart and maybe one or two other stores. It’s just free advertising at that point. Just keep sending most of the promo cards, products and print boxes to the LGS businesses and get the word out a bit further, because I think by not expanding at least a little bit the company is choking itself out a little bit.

[@dahger7]

In full Wolverine morphanization

[@qaaa6759]

Great breakdown of the FAB market. New player just getting started and this was loaded with valuable information. Thanks !

[@spaceyguy13]

FAB is a great game, I have so much fun with this game and love drafting this game. I will be paying the 'waifu' tax this month for the next set. Just need to remember to watch my patreon notifications.

[@tartuffethespry]

REVEAL THE ICYS

[@t.yop9]

You get what he's trying to do right? He's trying to equate FaB with Metazoo so he can offload more of his bags onto you.

[@KrepsyK]

He's never offloading those bags.

[@ThisisMindoMint]

lol y’all are so paranoid. Invest in FAB now don’t miss out again.

[@rpgfan12]

Thanks Rudy you convinced me to buy a case of Part the Mistveil

[@ThisisMindoMint]

FAB is amazing. The game is going to be around for a while. It’s just so AMAZING Buy in now, don’t miss out again❤

[@TrevorJust]

RUDY - Is my Monarch finally out of graveyard status???

[@shadowmarez7457]

I think my local card shop got rid of their F&B . I walked in one day and they were selling all of their booster boxes for like $50 after they were trying to sell them for like $60ish and no one bought them at that price. Like Rudy said, Those who are playing the game are just getting Singles. But I think some guy came in and bought them all up for $50 each, They were from the newer set so i don't think they were even worth that much, The owner just didn't want to be stuck with them so they did a Flash sale. Getting your money back with little profit is better than being stuck with the product. it's definitely a Neesh card game in my area, literally no one plays it at my locals.

[@7Alberto7]

Rudy and the heart of Rudy, brilliant😂

[@ChefKazam]

Rudy saying FAB needs to treat its businesslike WotC? It doesn't cost them any more or less when printing the cards. You could have a set of all seralized cards and a set of all commons. The cost to produce those sets is the exact same. So just because the singles market is high, does not mean they are underselling their product. If there isnt enough sealed product on the shelves for people to buy, and its difficult to keep up with the demand. Then, yes increase the price of the sealed product.

[@jwhit88]

I just come here for the, “Folks!”

[@Porkswordactual]

I’ve still got one Welcome to Rathe alpha. Can’t decide if I should sell it or not.

[@KrepsyK]

No

[@milkokawaiidjiev5000]

LETS GOOOOOOO! Flesh and Blood is an amazing game! Love your content for it !

[@mfdoom1898]

FAB > Modern MTG

[@fastydave]

Naw

[@mfdoom1898]

@@fastydave yaw

[@ValariaxSword]

I’m a fairly dedicated FaB player and can attest to this buying behavior. The game is super fun but I don’t want to engage in the gambling aspects of cracking boxes. I just want the singles to play with.

[@TheDarkElder]

Enjoy the tacos! And I enjoy my FaB cards and boxes. No, not for eating, duh.

[@jayn9446]

Rudy come to the card show on Saturday at the Ramada on Hartley. 😊

[@mikeskirk]

Does flesh and blood have limited and an online application

[@nathrexa2316]

Yes to limited and yes but no to online application as it has Talishar which is a free online client but not an official paid one like magic online

[@jasoncookman3158]

T H I N N I N G

[@CandlepinComics]

What the hell Rudy…you just haaaaad to tell everyone about the inverted EV again.

[@ThePenitentSquirrel]

20:31 Rudy describing the Germ theory of disease lmao

[@UmbralGaming]

Yooo Syberia, great taste

[@chesterfieldthe3rd929]

Rudy do you play SteamWorld games? Sounds like its right up your alley.

[@justinshaffer4935]

I've always been interested in the patreon for this channel but I've never been a patron before. Am really interested in the package deal you are gonna run for mistveil. Is there a way to learn more about it all

[@justinestarita3798]

Do you sell pokemon boxes to the public or do I have to join your patreon membership?

[@MrRayRockstar]

I rather have a .50 mtg card than a $50 FAB card

[@borghe]

the thing about LSS and FAB... they aren't flashy. They aren't doing the cross promotion.. aren't doing the licensing.. they aren't doing the big presence at the Cons... they are just releasing quality product, quality sets... and as you said just crushing the OP scene. Also with virtually no rotation.. it means that EV of sets actually fluctuates.. Monarch dropped significantly.. now it rose back up because of Dynamo, Great Library, and 1E cases going for like $300.

[@geek593]

It's not really a major TCG since Bushiroad sucks as a company but Shadowverse Evolve has a lot of that same vibe as FAB with its singles vs. box prices. Boxes are in the dumpster but the cards inside them are absolutely nuts and desirable. People are letting boxes go for significantly cheaper than what the cards inside are worth. Unfortunately Bushiroad is Bushiroad and are terrible at recognizing a player's market requires real intense support from the publisher to snowball into long term success so they're letting it rot on the vine unlike LSS.

[@NerdAndProudOfIt]

how’s the EV on those 200$ 1st edition monarch boxes!? 😜❤️

[@KrepsyK]

Better than my unlimited...

[@NerdAndProudOfIt]

@@KrepsyKthat certainly is true! 😁👊🏻❤️

[@birdsflapatnighttogether2304]

Ev is actually fantastic. I pulled a cf library which is 300 dollars. 300 is greater than 200, so I'd say ev is fantastic.

[@NerdAndProudOfIt]

@@birdsflapatnighttogether2304one card is not EV. but happy for you, you made your box back 👊🏻

[@lukedavis3953]

So . . . should I sell my old singles?

[@GachaKLife]

FAB or Union Arena dies first?

[@flo5949]

Germany love FAB ❤

[@CapitalismWins]

There is a huge discrepancy between sealed and singles because there is no volume. If FAB had the same sales volume as Pokemon or MTG, then the delta between the box and the singles would narrow. This arbitrage of cracking boxes vs playing the game exists because there is something unhealthy with the market.

[@MichaelSuperbacker]

Rudy!!!!

[@spyder2238]

Holy crap I remember Syberia. Wicked game

[@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters]

1 and 2 were ported to the original xbox and I have beat those and they are great. Nice backgrounds.

[@madquest8]

What happened to Flesh and Taco?

[@aldrickespen6863]

Asking the real questions, rudy will ignore this 😭

[@olsonjonathan]

What about warlord ccg?

[@andrewostman3135]

Not much on anime style and the classes in mist... Ill just keep buying dusk till dawn and heavy hitters

[@edchan9667]

Anime style has been coming out of the blocks in Japan.

[@anthonyhershberger8441]

Love you Rudy keep up all the evil investing bro

[@jamesdagro4189]

when the hell are they going to do the co op mode against an AI deck?

[@MrRayRockstar]

Can't wait for Cowboy theme FAB!!!

[@CGoody564]

Giggity

[@AgentCooper23]

FAB hands down has the best looking cards on the market. The game is fun. Only issue is when a Hero achieves living legend status all the equipment and supporting cards go to zero.. making me hesitant to collect. Also, the biggest reason the game's growth was stunted, overprinting.

[@moshebaum7612]

FAB has really bad EV, they still have a case hit problem, the only way to get a good EV is by buying a case and then only if your case hit is good enough

[@justinreschke3642]

Infinite money glitch. It will get patched in the next update.

[@keio4456]

Grand Archive is the same. Great organized play too.

[@minispiel19]

Everything that I have noticed as a player

[@ecormed]

Flesh and Blood BEST competitiv TCG ever!

[@GeekyMedia]

The writing is on the taco

[@EscapedAlien]

Yes, Rudy did get my dad pregnant.

[@chumpie435]

The EV per box isnt as high as you think it is.

[@fredflint8399]

Rudy slabbing cards for a game that has no collectors. I think he is losing his mind.

[@zeddik99]

Damn Rudy, you're starting to go bald up top there😎

[@nunya1337]

Love the thunder

[@tylerwilson1799]

Idk but the main lgs I used to go to for fab/sell collections too just stopped carrying/buying fab. No clue why but not a good sign. Who knows time will tell

[@moshebaum7612]

FAB also has a problem of stores being the largest market makers for singles. Their costs are so much lower that a single individual would never be able to compete with a couple of cases

[@moshebaum7612]

Magic squeezes stores so much that consumer pricing is not so much different than store costs

[@davyfromthenavy4248]

I don't see how this is a problem.

[@88tallyn]

Star Wars Unlimited was like this before the booster box shortage, Vaders were still 80-100 dollars and so many other cards had value, and you could get boxes at around $100 a piece. Now it makes no sense to open them as card prices haven't doubled but box prizes have more than.